Renamed Food – I’ll have the Slimehead with Power Peas, please

Science Fact: Renamed food – the restaurant owner’s secret, coming to a school near you. How about a burger? Or would you rather have two 100% pure beef patties, hand-leafed lettuce, tomato, spread with or without onions, stacked high on … Continue reading

Frankenburger and Chicken Little

  Science Fact:  Frankenburger — that’s meat grown in a test tube — has given late night comedians lots of joke material. And Sergey Brin, co-founder of Google, has bankrolled research by scientist Mark Post at Maastricht University in the … Continue reading

Raisin Diet – Behind the Headlines

Science Fact:  Go on a raisin diet and lose weight?  Prevent diabetes? Wait a minute, didn’t we already have the grapefruit diet, the avocado diet, etc?  And who could forget the Atkins Diet with its rashers of bacon? Does everything qualify … Continue reading